It seems like the longer the Gulf oil disaster remains in the news, the more opportunities for BP to be revealed as negligent or intentionally deceitful pop up. Yesterday, ABC News correspondent Matt Gutman found himself engaged in the latter when he was watched and questioned by a BP manager as he set up his laptop to talk on Skype by the shore in Orange Beach, Alabama– and near a cleanup crew.

The stock price of BP has dropped over 50% since the Gulf oil rig disaster lead to the oil spill that has wreaked environmental, economic and even political damage for seven weeks now. Last night, Jon Stewart used the failing stock price as a lead in to BP’s failed PR efforts (i.e. Tony Hayward‘s apologetic advertisement), as well as some of the most absurd plans to stem the leak and clean the water (Costner!). It’s funny because it’s true.

Finally, some good news: AP is reporting that BP COO Doug Suttles has told them that the company expects the oil leak flooding the Gulf of Mexico could be reduced to a “relative trickle” by next Monday or Tuesday, thanks to a new containment cap and the arrival of a second pumping ship.

Public approval ratings for BP right now are about as low as the depth of the oil well they can’t seem to control on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, and their strategy to stop the gushing (and justified) vitriol against them seems to be similar: cap it with a publicity blitz. BP has released an ad taking full responsibility for the disaster and attempting to reassure the American people that they are doing their best.

BP COO Doug Suttles– the kind of earnest one, not the one that keeps putting his foot in his mouth every time he sees a camera– visited CNN’s John King for a one-on-one about BP’s new plan to plug the oil well, the upcoming criminal investigation on his company, and whether the Obama administration’s newly debuted tougher rhetoric on the company worries him. At the very least, he’s not surprised.

Earlier today President Obama named a new commission to look into the BP oil spill and delivered some harsh words saying that, if crimes were committed, charges will be filed. Shortly afterward, Megyn Kelly interviewed BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles for comment on the President’s statement, who clearly stated that his focus was on fixing the oil spill. But regarding when asked if there was any criminal negligence that may have lead to this Suttles claimed that he “had no idea” whether laws where broken and refused to make any comment on whether BP was culpable.

Oh, those enterprising morning zoo radio show hosts, where would we be without them? For some reason, someone decided to disguise themselves as a USA Today reporter to prank call today’s BP press conference announcing the end of Top Kill, and asked BP COO Doug Suttles about “The Kidd Chris Show,” a shock jock morning show based in Portland, Oregon.

After rumors circulated earlier today that BP’s “Top Kill” method of plugging the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico failed, BP COO Doug Suttles hosted a press conference today to make it official that Top Kill did not succeed and that they were moving on to “the next option”: the “lower marine riser package,” which they had been planning “all along.”

Earlier today, BP COO Doug Suttles had no good news for local reporters following the company’s “top kill” effort to plug the oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, telling them that it had not yet worked and he did not know whether it would be successful yet. And now a few moments ago, CNN Assignment Editor Nick Valencia is reporting on Twitter that Plaquemines President Billy Nungesser has received and email saying Top Kill has officially failed.

The “top kill” plan to plug the oil leak is still proceeding according to plan, but it is still too early to adequately access the success or failure of this most recent strategy to stem the oil leak tide from the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. This comes from the most recent press conference that served as a progress report – a video of which is below featuring BP’s Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles.

BP began working on their “Top Kill” plan to plug the giant oil well gushing into the Gulf of Mexico earlier today and held a press conference earlier tonight with BP COO Doug Suttles to give an update on the situation. There was some good news: there are 65 barrels of mud going into the well per minute, and it should be another 24 hours before the well is plugged, if all goes well. Suttles admits, however, that BP really won’t know if the efforts were successful or not until then.

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, US Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry, and BP COO Doug Suttles held a press conference earlier today to update the media on the disastrous situation in the Gulf of Mexico. While they had no good news related to the sealing of the open oil well, they did have reports that the chemical dispersants were working, and that very little damage has been done to America’s shores.

BP CEO Doug Suttles and the US Defense Department just minutes ago held a press conference in Robert, Louisiana to give a grim update in the Gulf oil spill: the containment dome lowered into the open oil well malfunctioned, as ice crystals formed on the inside of it, countering pressure from above to fit the dome in the well.